Results for tag: Maddison
Nobel Prize 2024 Awarded for Groundbreaking Work on Institutions and Prosperity
| Date: | 14 October 2024 |
2024 Maddison Lecture by Douglas Gollin
| Date: | 16 May 2024 |
On May 30, Douglas Gollin of Tufts and Oxford University will give the 2024 Maddison Lecture. Gollin will speak on the topic of Structural Transformation and Growth. Economists have long recognised that for a country to develop, its economy should...
Maddison data in Biden-Harris Administration 2023 Economic Report
| Date: | 30 March 2023 |
The Council of Economic Advisers, a component of the Executive Office of the President in the Biden-Harris Administration, has released the 2023 Economic Report of the President. This report starts with a reflection by President Biden about the...
Maddison project, re: "Don't believe the Haiti/DR graph"
| Date: | 24 September 2021 |
Jutta Bolt appointed to Aletta Jacobs chair
| Date: | 16 December 2020 |
Jutta Bolt has just been appointed to one of the University of Groningen's Aletta Jacobs chairs. These chairs were created to give female associate professors a leg up, to achieve a less male-dominated professoriat. As GGDC, we heartily congratulate Jutta...
Inequality moves in cycles
| Date: | 10 September 2018 |
New research by Herman de Jong and María Gómez León, published in the Economic History Review, examines inequality in Germany and the United Kingdom in the first half of the twentieth century. Over this period, the developments have mirrored each other in...
Piketty gives Maddison lecture
| Date: | 01 June 2018 |
On May 23, Thomas Piketty gave the Maddison lecture, on the topic of globalization and inequality. See here for some highlights and how Piketty's work relates to research of GGDC.
Beyond Growth? Robert Inklaar's inaugural lecture
| Date: | 08 March 2018 |
On March 6, Robert Inklaar gave his inaugural lecture to officially accept his position of Professor in the Economics of Productivity and Welfare. In this lecture, he established how productivity growth in the 21st century has been low by historical...
VoxEU column on Rebasing 'Maddison'
| Date: | 25 January 2018 |
A new column on VoxEU is online, discussing the new version of the Maddison Project Database, which was released two weeks ago. The key innovation is to distinguish two series for real GDP per capita, one best suited for comparing income levels across...
Maddison Project Database 2018
| Date: | 11 January 2018 |
A new version of the Maddison Project Database has been released today. This new version introduces a new measure of real GDP per capita that is based on both modern and historical comparisons of income levels, leading to a 'multiple benchmark' measure...